Cambridge 2016 Postgraduate Entry

Sorry, I'm not totally sure what you'd like to know- stuff like scholarships and research experience? Just let me know, and I'll send you a PM if you don't mind (anything to procrastinate on analysing this data...)

I found out I had an interview on 10th Feb, when my potential supervisor emailed me to say they'd like me to visit, and then it would be combined with funding interviews.

Oh okay, do you have a conditional offer through GRADSAF? Or are you still under consideration?

probably they were reading this forum and decided to troll you, lol.

anyway it could have been worse, you could have been rejected. Congratulations on top of everything. Some of us, specially engineering people are still waiting to hear back.

Hey guys,

I've been at the BoGS stage since Wednesday and I was wondering how much longer should I wait before e-mailing the graduate admissions office? Anxiety is kicking in, once again. As far as I know - I don't have anything to worry about; I'm an international applicant and do have the minimum required grade for the course I'm applying for, but the wait is really killing me

Also, I just got rejected for the Chevening scholarship without any explanation - before I was even able to update my application with the official offer which I find really odd. Any of you had similar experience?

Hello,

Has anyone received any response, on their MPhil in Technology Policy application, at the Judge Business School from the department?

I am also infuriatingly awaiting approval by BoGS which I have been on since last Wednesday! But I already have an offer for funding! I am really confused! Would there be any reason I was rejected at this stage?

My status changed to 'Awaiting decision by BoGS' last Thursday. Today, it has changed to 'Application awaiting approval by BGS'.

Could anyone please provide some ideas as to what the difference between these two status could be?

Thanks a lot! It took around 2 - 3 weeks after the interview. How did your interview go? Best of luck!

I applied before the December deadline, had an interview on 22th January, so almost a month ago and my application is still 'under consideration by department'.

Is it normal?

Thanks :x

Has any of the offer holders here received the condition of obtaining a mere 2.i (not a specific percentage - just a plain 2.i)? If so, for what course?

Guys, don't get so hung up on the BoGS stage. I know it is easy to say after the event, but the only ways it goes wrong at BoGS are if you've sent them forged documents, or your national academic standards are so far below the entry standards and no-one has noticed yet. Very occasionally a department makes an offer to someone how has academic qualifications below a university agreed minimum, and then it takes a while for them to justify why to BoGS, but really, getting rejected at the BoGS stage is vanishingly rare.

The difference in wording is almost certainly the difference between the departmental secretary updating your file - which has one phrase, and the faculty secretary using the other phrase.

What is going on at BoGS at the moment is that the tidal wave of decisions is beginning to rise up out of the departments and the files are arriving back on the desks of a small handful of admissions staff in BoGS who are wading through them just as fast as they can. There are no BoGS meetings, just staff trying to cope with the inundation of decisions the academics are beginning to make. BoGS responses will probably slow down markedly over the next few weeks as they plough through them all just as fast as they can.

I'm no BoGS apologist, or in their pay - but I have seen how and where they work, and like the whole Cambridge admissions process, it is in fact very tailored and individual, and very manual.